Early childhood and music education. New approach.

[HH]

 DAY FIVE.

There are 2 more ‘games’ (they are more on’ traditional’ side) that we use to teach music notes: Treble Staff Puzzle and Bass Staff puzzle.
http://www.doremifasoft.com/trstpu.html
http://www.doremifasoft.com/bastpu.html

We didn’t provide DEMO for Bass Staff Puzzle, because the game is a mirror copy of Treble Staff Puzzle.

ALL of our software based on very unique and advanced mathematical formula, that registers very move of a player. All the games are training eye-sight and ear of kids to read music score fluently.

You always have to start from very beginning, but always go to finish differently. When you make mistakes, games are slowing down and let you be in places that you don’t know longer. If you don’t make any mistakes, software is getting you to more and more advanced level and skips some levels.

The goal of every game is to finish it in short game time.

If you accomplish the whole game in less than 15-20 minutes, you achieve professional fluency.

With smaller children is better to stop the game in 3-5 minutes (by pressing F1) and write score down. Next time you play you stop the game again at the same time and write score again. If your child is getting more and more points, he/she is making progress.

If there is any interruption during playing, you have to stop the game by pressing F1. Otherwise, game would ‘think’ that you are not good enough and will lower the levels.

Tomorrow I will show you NOTE DURATION game: the game that have many important benefits for children to build better eye-hand coordination, feeling of rhythm and knowledge about duration.

[HH]

DAY SIX
Game Note Duration.
This game is helping in different aspects:
1. I use it with beginners from 2+ year old to develop eye-hand coordination
2. I use it for hand on experience to explain different durations of music notes
3. Later on I use it to teach kids to count

At first colors help beginners to play melodies, bet the better coordination becomes the less colors are there  to assist. Students learn the main priority in music reading - black and white representation of score.

It also the easiest game in a packagr and my students just lOVE to play it in their spare time. All they have to press is the space key on their computer keyboard to produce many fun tunes:

http://www.doremifasoft.com/noducoga.html

The rest of the package has computer+digital piano/keyboard software. It requires connection through cable:
http://www.doremifasoft.com/cotopimico.html

If you have one, you will be able to check the software. If not, try to find a connector to see the core of Soft Mozart in action.

Regards!

[HH]

Now it is time for us to explore the Soft Mozart programs designed for piano+computer interaction.

Many companies were pursuing goal to make piano learning interactive, but only our approach works with 100% of population.

Why? Because we designed the interaction between students and Grand Staff through piano keys: we used animation to explain duration of music notes, their graphical differences and our personal coordination development.

Others use computer technology for 'sweetening' tedious theory drills or for 'chasing' piano keys through different colors.

As the spices on your kitchen shelves, lookalike music notes have to be organized in logical manner.

For example, in order for you to find spices on the fly, you are not coloring them in 7-12 different colors, and then you don't memorize the order of the colors. It is just long and ineffective way around!

Music notes could be placed on spaces or lines. No more choices. We colored them red (lines) and blue (spaces)
Grand Staff has Treble and Bass Cleves: we colored them green and brown.
Each note has duration and has to be pressed differently - we presented them as 'flower buds' - the petals are opening according to their duration.

Well, it would take me too long to describe all the subtle features of the program. Let's go practice!

First of all, you need to connect your computer with piano.

Here how you can do it: http://www.doremifasoft.com/cotopimico.html

Without such connection piano and computer won't communicate. You can buy interface ( the connector) from us or find it on Internet or any music store that sale digital instrument.

This game is teaching kids music keys layout: http://www.doremifasoft.com/guesskeygame.html

Your 2-3 year old toddlers can start playing the game from very first moment! The game also develops eye hand coordination, develops ear and perfect pitch.

I use it when child just starts piano lessons, after that when I remove stickers a little bit later, after that when they move to acoustic piano and after that for ear training (I turn the monitor off and they play by ear)

Next time I would explain about the CORE of the system - program that teaches to play pieces and read music - GENTLE PIANO.

[HH]

Read more about Soft Mozart and Gentle Piano here:
http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/'soft-way-to-mozart'-piano-teaching-for-little-kids-and-beginners/30/

[Coco Cheung]

Hi all mother and father,

when i was pregnant i already play the classical music to him and also play different kind of CD after born. such as Peter Hubner etc. He like musci very much!

[christina moore]

Thanks for what you have posted.

My son has been taking music lessons at home since three .
All I can say that early music education can help the child become smarter. The Mozart Effect, whether true or just a hoax, has provided evidence and testimonies from parents.

When it comes to successful music education - we can owe a lot from dedicated parents and teachers who've given all support to their children. Successful music education can be achieve from effective teaching style, parental involvement, and, of course, the child's dedication.

[ChrisSalter]

We shared the free report on "Is Music a Birthright?"(http://www.brillkids.com/ext/partners/ebook-free-download-2.php) that gives some perspective the challenges of learning music, and their roots, some of which was brought out in our discussions. SoftMozart has some similar, more in depth articles on the origins and challenges of traditional music notation as well, the summary of which you can see in this thread

(http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/information-about-music-history-and-theory-every-parent-should-know/new/#new).

What I also added, in a different section, to try and give some perspective of the range of approaches and choices, is a series of posts about the four common approaches to learning piano (up to now). I believe that our methods, both Hellene of SoftMozart and Piano Wizard Academy, begin to shape a "fifth way". What is important to appreciate is they were both developed in response to something that was not really working, in the context of the limitations of the other approaches, trying to compensate for those gaps and yet leverage their strengths. Though each method has its advocates and champions, including Hellene and I for our own, and those advocates can be as we have seen quite passionate and compelling, NONE OF THESE APPROACHES IS PERFECT. We do strive to honestly "perfect" our process every day, with more and more knowledge, and this forum has been I think very fruitful in its exploration of the options. Here is my latest contribution to that conversation.

http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/four-common-approaches-to-learning-piano-some-pros-and-cons/msg60967/#msg60967

I don't know how many parents are following all this, but I can tell you if you are, you are now MUCH more knowledgeable about both the challenges of music education, and the pallet of options available, and I hope it helps you all find your own unique solution to your children's needs, and leads to a less dogmatic, more practical, efficient and fun way to bring music into their lives.

[HH]

We shared the free report on "Is Music a Birthright?"(http://www.brillkids.com/ext/partners/ebook-free-download-2.php) that gives some perspective the challenges of learning music, and their roots, some of which was brought out in our discussions. SoftMozart has some similar, more in depth articles on the origins and challenges of traditional music notation as well, the summary of which you can see in this thread

(http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/information-about-music-history-and-theory-every-parent-should-know/new/#new).
 NONE OF THESE APPROACHES IS PERFECT.

I think, the method that gives the proven calculated result can be called perfect
Soft Mozart has all the necessary documents.

[ChrisSalter]

Hellene,

I have the "perfect" reply for you. As a creative person like myself, you are constantly imagining improvements, new features, upgrades you would like to do to your software, "perfecting" it.

Secondly, my wife is not "perfect" (WAH?), but she IS perfect for ME. So I know no matter how much I love and appreciate my program, it may not be "right" for someone, for whatever reason that has nothing to do with the merits or demerits of our approach.

So perfection is subject to time and relationship and that is why it is so fleeting and rare, and those moments and alignments so wonderful.

I also only found my "perfect for me" wife when I stopped looking for a "perfect" wife and instead for someone I could work on perfecting the garden of our relationship with. We are always "pulling weeds" (OW!) but we do it with love and a common vision, and I look at the educational process similarly, that we are never quite satisfied, and always trying to perfect the communication and improve it.

So that is what I meant by no method is perfect, i.e., no method is perfect for everyone, each must weigh the pros and cons and their own situation and priorities.

And I know your next version of your program will be even more perfecter than this one! I strive for that in mine as well, and we know only that we continue to evolve.

Thanks

Chris

[HH]

We shared the free report on "Is Music a Birthright?"(http://www.brillkids.com/ext/partners/ebook-free-download-2.php) that gives some perspective the challenges of learning music, and their roots, some of which was brought out in our discussions. SoftMozart has some similar, more in depth articles on the origins and challenges of traditional music notation as well, the summary of which you can see in this thread

(http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/information-about-music-history-and-theory-every-parent-should-know/new/#new).

What I also added, in a different section, to try and give some perspective of the range of approaches and choices, is a series of posts about the four common approaches to learning piano (up to now). I believe that our methods, both Hellene of SoftMozart and Piano Wizard Academy, begin to shape a "fifth way". What is important to appreciate is they were both developed in response to something that was not really working, in the context of the limitations of the other approaches, trying to compensate for those gaps and yet leverage their strengths. Though each method has its advocates and champions, including Hellene and I for our own, and those advocates can be as we have seen quite passionate and compelling, NONE OF THESE APPROACHES IS PERFECT. We do strive to honestly "perfect" our process every day, with more and more knowledge, and this forum has been I think very fruitful in its exploration of the options. Here is my latest contribution to that conversation.

http://forum.brillkids.com/teaching-your-child-music/four-common-approaches-to-learning-piano-some-pros-and-cons/msg60967/#msg60967

I don't know how many parents are following all this, but I can tell you if you are, you are now MUCH more knowledgeable about both the challenges of music education, and the pallet of options available, and I hope it helps you all find your own unique solution to your children's needs, and leads to a less dogmatic, more practical, efficient and fun way to bring music into their lives.

OK
Before I answer you this, please, tell me, what is the better way to learn letters then letter with picture?

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